Charter Day
Is Celebrated
Today
VOLUME XX
SCHOOL CHARTER PASSES CENTURY
TODAY MARKED FOR j
INAUGURATION OF
CENTENNIAL PLANS
Conference Heid to Celebrate
One Hundred Years of Co-
Education in the South.
ADDRESS BY GOVERNOR
Binford Presents Program for Rebirth
of Guilford to Parallel Start of
New Garden.
One hundred years ago today, the
original charter for New Garden Board
ing School was ratified by the assem
bly of the state of North Carolina, em
powering the trustees to do business
and own land under that name. Four
years later Founders' hall was com
pleted and school opened; in 1888 it
became Guilford College.
Today the Governor of North Caro
lina comes to Guilford to aid in tho
launching of the Centennial program
which will, in its completion, see the
re-birth of a new Guilford four years
hence.
Fittingly, the celebration of the hun
dredth anniversary of Guilford, the
oldest co-educational institution in the
South, is to be opened with a round
table conference on co-education.
The conference opens at 10:30 in the
auditorium. Mrs. Frances Blanshard,
dean of women at Swarthmore College,
will address the throng of educators,
friends of the college, and students, on
the subject of co-education. Dr. Rob
ert L. Kelly, executive secretary of the
American Association of Colleges, will
also speak, choosing his own topic.
Dr. A. W. Hobbs, member of the
board of trustees and former member
of the faculty here, will preside and
introduce the speakers.
Luncheon in buffet fashion will be
served at the dining hall, preparations
having ben made to accommodate a
large number of visitors.
Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus' talk
on "Guilford College and North Caro
lina" will feature the afternoon ses
sion. The governor will be introduced
by Dr. D. Carroll, chairman of the
board of trustees, who will preside. The
main speech is to start at 2:30 in the
auditorium.
Samuel Haworth will conduct the de
votional at the opening of the session.
Following the governor's address,
President Raymond Binford will pre
sent the centennial program to the as
sembly.
The A Capella choir will sing during
the afternoon.
A basketball game in the gymnasium
tonight will complete the Charter Day
celcbration.
CLASSES SESENT FEW
PROGRAMS IN MEETINGS
Freshmen and Sophomores Hear Musi
cians; Seniors Discuss Rings
With No Definite Result.
Music has been the predominating
feature in recent class meetings. The
first meeting after the holidays, Janu
ary 4, the sophomores were entertained
by William Collier in a number of
piano selections. The other classes ad
journed because they did not have a
program.
January 11. Elizabeth Adams played
the piao for the freshmen. The seniors
held a business meeting, discussing the
problem of clnss rings, but making no
definite decision.
GUILFORDIAN
Binford to Give
Centennial Aims
President Binford will present
comprehensive plans for the centen
nial expansion project this after
noon at the meeting of the Guil
ford College board of trustees. This
project, which is already under way,
calls for an enlarged physical plant
and more adequate equipment; for
a select student body of 300 and for
a more adequate program of financ
ing and endowment; for further de
velopment of the new curriculum;
for a definite program of character
building, involving the relationship
of social and religious life to the
educational program of a liberal
arts college; for a broadened pro
gram of institutional service to so
ciety, and for the organization of
the old students, alumni, and all
friends of the college.
SWARTHMORE DEAN
SPEAKS IN MORNING
Dean Blanshard Gives Address
on Co-Education at Char
ter Day Program.
OPEN FORUM TO FOLLOW
"Co-education at the College Level"
will be the subject of the address of
Mrs. Frances Brand Blanshard, dean
of women at Swarthmore College, Penn
sylvania, at the Centennial program
Saturday. Mrs. Blanshard will speak
at 10:30. Her address will be followed
by an open forum.
Dean Blashard is a graduate of Smith
College with an A. M. from Columbia.
She was instructor at Hollins College,
Wellesley, and Michigan State before
she went to Swarthmore.
At Swarthmore she has been teach
ing in the department of philosophy,
has been acting dean, associate dean,
and in 1928 became dean of the college.
Mrs. Blanshard is prominent in the
National Association of Deans for
Women. She is a member of the Philos
ophy Association and a member of the
Phi Beta Kappa.
GUILFORDIANS CONDUCT
OWN CHAPEL PROGRAMS
Three Out of Four Exercises in Past
Two Weeks Led by Home
Talent.
Three of the four chapel services
since the holidays were carried on by
members of the faculty and student
body of Guilford College. Mr. Purdom
spoke on Monday about the Nobel Prize
in physics.
The whole college stood tip Tuesday
to pay silent tribute to the late J.
Franklin Davis.
Claud I>. Nelson, the Southern Field
Secretary, Student Division, of the
Y. M. C. A., spoke on "The Religion
of Jesus and a New Social Order."
John Hugh Williams spoke Friday
on "The Honor System."
New Members on Staff
Two people have been added to the
staff of the Guilfordian since the last
issue. Dorothy Sturdivant is taking
over the "Grist Mill," literary column
on the editoral page. Leßoy Miller lias
resgned his place as the "Minute Man,"
but the nejv "Minute Man" wishes his
identity kept anonymous
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GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C., JANUARY IS, 1934
FORTY PAGE STORY
OF GUILFORD PUT
OUT BY COMMITTEE
History Compiled from Many
Sources—Copies Avail
able for Today.
GILBERT IS MAIN AUTHOR
Real Beginnings of Quaker Institution
Back in England; Dr. Perisho
Aids With Reminiscences.
George Fox began it back in Eng
land when in 1668 lie advised setting
up schools "for teaching whatsoever
things was civil and ustful in ye crea
tion." Thus starts "The Story of Guil
ford College," written by Dorothy
Lloyd Gilbert with the help of the his
tory committee, Professor A. I. Newlin,
Mrs. J. Franklin Davis, who helped in
research, F. 0. Shepherd, who took care
of the business end, and Dr. Ehvood
Perisho, who offered anecdotes and
reminiscences.
The aim of the book, according to its
author, is to "interpret some of the
outstanding facts concerning Guilford,
and as much of the "innate spirit" as
they could catch.
It is a forty-page hook, with several
illustrations.
Some of the ideas in the book came
from Dr. L. L. Hoblis' unfinished his
tory of Guilford. Another interesting
source was the unpublished dairy of
Delilah Reynolds, who "walked fifteen
miles to be here" on the day New Gar
den boarding school opened.
Other sources were: Works of Elmira
Forester Wilson, minutes, catalogues,
old "Collegians," and Guilfordians, and
works of Dr. Mary M. Hobbs.
A former student of Guilford, Fran
ces Tonge, contributed the sonnet on
Guilford which opens the book.
TWENTY STUDENTS SIGN
FOR SPEAKING CONTESTS
Competition Grouped Under Three Gen
eral Big Heads; Both Men and
Women Eligible.
FORENSIC TOURNEY HEADS LIST
Two events of interest to student
speakers and debaters, aside from the
regular contests for the debating team,
were announced in chapel Tuesday
morning by Professor Algie Newlin,
Chairman of the debating committee.
They are the Trl-State Intercollegiate
Forensic Tournament to be held at the
King Cotton hotel in Greensboro, March
S, 0. and 10, and the Peace Oratorical
Contest at Lenoir-Rliyne, April 27.
Nearly twenty students have given
their names for the try-outs for these
contests and several more are expected.
The states participating in the Fo
rensic Tournament are North Carolina,
South Carolina and Virginia. Differ
ent events or contests will be the de
bates tournament, the men's oratorical
contest, women's oratorical contest,
after-dinner speaking contest, and con
test in extemporaneous speaking.
Dates for local tryouts have been
set by the debating committee. One
Guilford student will be chosen to rep
resent each contest. Tryouts for the
local debating team will be held Mon
day, January 29; for the contest in
Greensboro, Friday, February 23, and
for the 'peace oratorical contest, Fri
day, April 13.
EXAMINATIONS CHANGE
RATINGSJN CLASSES
Those students, now rated as
freshmen, sophomores or juniors,
who will have sufficient hours after
the examinations for a higher
standard, will bo classed with the
upper bracket and will be expected
to attend the new class meetings,
according to Miss Era Laslcy, col
loge registrar. That is, a student
who lacked two hours of being a
junior this fall and was consequent
ly rated a sophomore until the
present, will shift, providing he
makes those two hours.
Examinations begin at 9 Monday,
January 15, and end Monday, Jan
uary 22.
Seniors register January 15 in the
registrar's office. Juniors and
sophomores register January 20,
Saturday, and Freshmen, Monday,
all lower classmen signing up in the
biology laboratory.
Classes begin at 1:15 Monday aft
ernoon and absences will be count
ed from then.
ALL DEPARTMENTS
GIVE EXHIBITIONS
Fruit Flies, Term Papers, Elec
trical Measuring Instru
ments Are Included.
OLD MANUSCRIPT SHOWN
An exhibition to which many mem
bers of the faculty contributed exam
ples of their students' work and some
of their department's equipment will
be given in the library and in the biol
ogy laboratory on Charter Pay. Be
sides the faculty's contributions, an
cient manuscripts belonging to Miss
Laura Worth and the Centennial cam
pus and building plans will be shown.
Some of the contributions of the
physics department are a potentiome
ter for the calibration of electrical
measuring instruments, a large size
electrical measuring instrument, a one
meter concave grating spectograph for
photographing spectra, photographs of
various spectra, and a photo-electrical
cell. .
Miss Ricks will exhibit some rare
books and pamphlets.
Miss Gilbert and Mr. Furnas con
tributed some English term papers nncl
theses.
Dr. Campbell will exhibit some fruit
flies for genetics and other specimens.
Miss Bruce will show some home
economics work. Mr. Fleming contrib
utes some pictures and examples of
student's work in French.
Mrs. Milner exhibits Julia Blair
Ilodgin's personnel cards and some of
last year's geometrical and free hand
drawings done in Philosophy 10, notes
from Philosophy 10, and syllabi of
Philosophy 103, 104, Psychology 1 and
Sociology.
NOAH'S CHOIR SINGS ON
AFTERNOON PROGRAM
The Guilford College choir under the
direction of Max Noah is going to sing
this afternoon as a part of the Charter
Day program. The numbers that they
will sing are: "Hail! Gladdening Light,"
Wood; "Lo, in the Time Appointed,"
Healy Willan; "All Breathing Life,
Sing and Praise Ye the Lord," J. S.
Bach; "Adoramus Te," G. P. da Pales
trina; "Ava Marie," Wetzel, and
Psalm CXLVIII," Gustav Hoist.
Inauguration
Of Plans For
Centennial
NUMBER 6
J. FRANKLIN DAVIS
QUIETLY PASSES ON
TUESDAY MORNING
Beloved Professor of Guilford
Ends a Long Life of
Service.
FORMED LINK WITH PAST
Came Here in 1888, First Year of the
College, and Was Active
Until 1931.
A living link to tlie past of Guilford
College is gone with the death of Pro
fessor .T. Franklin Davis, Tuesday
morning at his home on Station road.
Professor Davis was a member of
the faculty when Guilford opened as
a college in 1888. Ilis mother, Annie
Henley, was one of the twenty-five girls
enrolled at the opening of New Garden
Hoarding School in 1837. For more
than 42 years Professor Davis was a
member of the faculty in active service,
withdrawing November, 1931, on ac
count of a stroke of paralysis. His
name, however, was carried on the roll
until his death.
Death came quietly at 4 :30 Tuesday
morning as the result of a heart at
tack. He had been a semi-invalid for
two years but recently had been able
to go out for short automobile rides.
On Monday lie went to Greensboro to
get his hair trimmed In preparation
f'.r tlie Charter Day exercises.
He had been married to Mrs. Jose
phine Rhodes Davis for about six years.
She, a resident of Philadelphia, for
merly taught music at Guilford. She
is at present interested in the Guil
ford college club and other activities
of the nature.
Professor Davis' two daughters, Mrs.
C. S. McArthur, Elizabethtown, and
Mrs. E. C. Winslow, Tarboro, his son
Henry Davis, of High Point, all gradu
ated from Guilford. Besides these and
Ills wife, Professor Davis Is survived
by an older brother, Stephen Davis,
of Deep River.
RHODES SCHOLARSHIP
GOES TO CAROLINA MAN
Guilford's Candidates Were Bill Edger
ton, Who Rated Among the First
Five, and Dave Parsons.
North Carolina candidate for the Ce
cil Rhodes Scholarships to Oxford as
announced by the state selection com
mittee is Robert Barnette, of Shanghai,
China, who is a student at the Univer
sity of North Carolina. He will go to
Atlanta where the scholarships will be
awarded to four students from Virginia,
South Carolina, Tennessee, North Caro
lina, Georgia and Florida.
Guilford's candidates for these schol
arships were William Edgerton and
David Parsons. Both are reported to
have ranked high, especially Edgerton,
who was rated among the first five.
Robert Lassiter, of Yale, was the
other North Carolina student who com
peted for the final choice by the state
committee.
Form Discussion Group
A group of freshmen formed a dis
cussion group about two months ago
which meets every Sunday night at
6:30 at Professor Newlin's home to dis
cuss social, economic, political and re
ligious questions. To encourage the
members to express their opinions, it
was made a semi-secret society.